Want to echo the Richard Skelton love upthread - Landings is great. Maybe I just don't listen to enough of this sort of thing, but the strings on it sound fantastic, there's a really earthy resonance to them.
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Saturday, 13 February 2010 20:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
In the mood to buy a record in this genre ... Any suggestions?
― djh, Saturday, 20 February 2010 16:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
One artist you may want to check out is Harold Budd - a lot of good albums dating back to the 70s, even. It varies a bit, from very piano-heavy to highly processed, so you'll want to preview them first I guess. I have a soft spot for Lovely Thunder and his collab with the Cocteau Twins, Moon and the Melodies but people often point to The White Arcades as a good starting point. (He also has some newer releases too which I'm somewhat less familiar with.)
― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 22 February 2010 17:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
Also you may want to check out one or more of Ryuichi Sakamoto's more recent works - I really like both BTTB and Playing the Piano for their simplicity and the nice balance between classical sensibilities and modern feel.
Have also been enjoying the Nils Frahm record Winter Musik.
― Sean Carruthers, Friday, 26 February 2010 02:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
Anyone go to any Bubbly Blue & Green events?
― djh, Sunday, 28 February 2010 13:00 (3 years ago) Permalink
Also, yes, Winter Musik is excellent. I possibly like The Bells even more.
― djh, Sunday, 28 February 2010 13:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
> Anyone go to any Bubbly Blue & Green events?
was at the Isan / Hauschka with Hildur Guðnadóttir on thursday. went for the laptop electronic (with added water driven percussion and splishy sploshy samples), stayed for the prepared piano and modified cello (surprisingly captivating).
― koogs, Sunday, 28 February 2010 21:49 (3 years ago) Permalink
another huge thumbs-up for Frahm's The Bells - this is great stuff
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 19:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
new olafur arnalds: http://www.erasedtapes.co.uk/ (though not really *getting it* so far)
― djh, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 10:54 (3 years ago) Permalink
The new Greg Haines is getting good reviews:http://www.themilkfactory.co.uk/st/2010/03/greg-haines-until-the-point-of-hushed-support-sonic-pieces/
― Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Farting in Space (NickB), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 11:00 (3 years ago) Permalink
Hauschka, the prepared piano dude i mentioned upthread slightly, is in the latest morr mailout as gigging soon.
10.05.2010 — London (GB) — Barbican ( http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=10071 )12.05.2010 — Cambridge (GB) — Junction13.05.2010 — Bristol (GB) — St George14.05.2010 — Oxford (GB) — Holywell Music Room15.05.2010 — Manchester (GB) — Band On The Wall16.05.2010 — Edinburgh (GB) — Roxy
― koogs, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 17:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
also, isan's half of the Bubbly Blue And Green gig is available from their website: www.isan.co.uk (which is a bit off topic but...)
― koogs, Thursday, 8 April 2010 11:02 (3 years ago) Permalink
Nils Frahm in Oxford tomorrow!
― djh, Sunday, 11 April 2010 21:45 (3 years ago) Permalink
So I can't make the Johann Johannson show in London on May 27, anyone want a ticket? £12.50, wot a bargain.
― the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Monday, 12 April 2010 08:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
what's worth exploring on kning disk?
― djh, Monday, 12 April 2010 10:10 (3 years ago) Permalink
and were broderick and frahm the only "solo piano" releases on the label?
― djh, Saturday, 24 April 2010 21:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
Hauschka very entertaining live.
― djh, Sunday, 16 May 2010 18:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
bunch of stuff on Type Recordings, including Broderick's Float in the boomkat summer sale for £3.95:
http://www.boomkat.com/labels/?id=2582&format=cd
― koogs, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 18:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
Have I missed anything?
― djh, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 20:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
Looking for suggestions for more stuff like Olafur Arnalds or like, say, Peter Broderick's Float - stuff that is maybe a touch less dissonant than stuff like Landings can be at times (though I love it too). Really need some more stuff that won't jangle the nerves at random intervals!
― Sean Carruthers, Sunday, 14 November 2010 22:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
(Caveat: still want to stay away from new age cheeseorama.)
― Sean Carruthers, Sunday, 14 November 2010 22:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
I have never heard of these composers. I assume they sound something like Satie informed by minimalism with subtle O'Rourke-ish electronic touches, with higher production values and lower standards of performance technique than most 'new music'? Which could be great or not, depending.
OTM
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 03:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
Pondering spending my Xmas Boomkat voucher on Third Eye Foundation's "The Dark" and Philip Jeck's "An Ark For The Listener" but do feel free to persuade me otherwise . . .
― djh, Monday, 27 December 2010 21:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
Those are both really great listens tbh.
― O Permaban (NickB), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 00:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
does the Akira Rabeilas' Caduceus album go here? nobody seems to have talked about it much. severely processed guitar w/ traces of field recordings and delicate AM radio interference. so nice
― missingNO, Tuesday, 28 December 2010 09:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
Should start a 2011 thread but uncertain on what classical music is being bought from Boomkat this year . . . .
Had forgotten how much I enjoyed Richard Skelton's Landings (prompted to replay by The Wire).
Has anyone gone for Skura, the 20 disc box set?
― djh, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 18:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
a bunch of the Type Recordings releases are in the winter sale, for the next week anyway.
― koogs, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 18:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
also, here's a link to the Home Listening recommendations
http://boomkat.com/genres/32/recommendations
― koogs, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 18:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
Go for it if you want to start a new thread, but I would say make it modern classical / ambient / field recordings of rolling tumbleweed cos there's obviously lots of blurring between these things.
― ka£ka (NickB), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 21:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
New Nils Frahm.
Can't listen to it on headphones (as recommended on the sleeve) as the scrape of pedals etc gets on my nerves too much.
Hasn't moved me as much as previous releases, so far, but it may grow on me.
― djh, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 20:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
This is lovely:
http://drownedinsound.com/news/4143522-listen--stream-a-winged-victory-for-the-sullens-self-titled-debut
― djh, Sunday, 11 September 2011 19:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
agree..... my thoughts here
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 01:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
I picked up a dozen or so releases in the recent (1 mo. or so ago?) Boomkat sale... biggest winner is probably Sylvain Chauveau's The Black Book of Capitalism...... gorgeous record all around.
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Sunday, 18 September 2011 01:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
I do hope the ongoing Boomkat sales keeps the Type label ticking over.
― djh, Monday, 19 September 2011 21:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.livingroomsongs.olafurarnalds.com/
― djh, Monday, 3 October 2011 20:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
Came here to post that link. Nice catch. Day 2 is wonderful. Will be ordering the cd/dvd combo, myself.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 21:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
The thing with announcing that this is going to be released ... what if this week's recordings are rubbish?
― djh, Thursday, 6 October 2011 22:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
Enjoying Johannsson's Fordlandia.
I suppose I'm having difficulty discerning whether some of this music is intentionally difficult or whether it is aiming for pleasure. Not that it matters either way.
― calstars, Friday, 7 October 2011 17:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
Well, the one time I saw him he and the ensemble seemed exceptionally dour. Not sure whether they were just having a day or whether they were trying to be Serious Musicians™, but it didn't exactly project an aura of pleasure. Which doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it, however.
― Sean Carruthers, Sunday, 9 October 2011 02:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
er, having a BAD day...
On the recordings, I like the "whole thing" - the strings, the processing, the production, the electronic bits. When I saw him live, I just kind of thought I'd rather just hear the strings and that the other sounds felt too incongruous.
― djh, Sunday, 9 October 2011 07:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
... Actually, I didn't enjoy it live to a point that it *slightly* put me off the records.
― djh, Sunday, 9 October 2011 07:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
Had forgotten how much I enjoyed Richard Skelton's Landings
― djh, Tuesday, March 22, 2011 7:36 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark
Man... just discovered this today and it's jaw-droppingly gorgeous. Fantastic, meditative and ethereal music. Shoots straight to my heart.
― Y Kant Lou Reed (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 5 November 2011 13:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
Anyone else heard the Le Lendemain album called Fires? Got turned onto it by the guy at Penguin who knows I'm into Johannsson etc, and it certainly fits into that whole vein.
Have really learned to love the Winged Victory album - it's also put me onto the solo Dustin O'Halloran albums and all of the Stars of the Lid stuff, too - all of them are on Rdio thankfully!
― Sean Carruthers, Saturday, 5 November 2011 21:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
For my birthday last year my wife got me one of Richard Skelton's special editions - a CD of exclusive tracks and a beautiful box containing various cool things. I don't have physical copies of any other music these days, but all of his stuff is so gorgeously packaged that I have them all out on display.
― toby, Sunday, 6 November 2011 11:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
We're definitely moving into the time of year where I listen to Skelton every weekend morning around dawn.
― toby, Sunday, 6 November 2011 11:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
awesome!
― difficult to adjust to ilxor being a low frequency poster (ilxor), Sunday, 6 November 2011 19:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
Anyone else heard the Le Lendemain album called Fires? Got turned onto it by the guy at Penguin who knows I'm into Johannsson etc, and it certainly fits into that whole vein.― Sean Carruthers, Saturday, November 5, 2011
― Sean Carruthers, Saturday, November 5, 2011
This is a great record. I'm going to put it on right now in fact...
I've been revisiting Rachel's Systems/Layers a lot lately. I wish this was available on vinyl.
I'd like to recommend this band also: http://hedia.bandcamp.com/
― Super Receptor (Barnaby, Hardly), Sunday, 6 November 2011 19:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
'Systems/Layers' is an ultimate winter album for me
― Y Kant Lou Reed (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 6 November 2011 20:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
This sounds like it has potential:
http://www.theghostlystore.com/products/jacaszek-glimmer?utm_source=tgs-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TGS111611
― djh, Friday, 18 November 2011 23:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
Some new-old Richard Skelton:
http://www.corbelstonepress.com/archival-riftmusic2.htm
― djh, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 19:37 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
Weird. Would have had Skelton down as popular on here.
― djh, Sunday, 2 June 2013 20:11 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
I think he is? But I don't ever hear his stuff when it comes out - by a long-standing arrangement, my wife buys it and keeps it until my birthday/Christmas. So probably I'll have something to say about it in January!
― toby, Monday, 3 June 2013 05:49 (2 weeks ago) Permalink